Way to batch hide for render?
Select the mesh, and press Ctrl+H. The mesh will still be visible in the viewport, but it will now be hidden in the render.

As you can see it is visible in the viewport render still:



However if I press F12 and render an image, it is hidden.



This works for any number of objects, just select them all, and press Ctrl+H. Notice also that Ctrl+Alt+H unhides the selected meshes from the final render.